LEADER 04227nam 2200805Ia 450 001 9910815404803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-107-22441-1 010 $a1-139-36543-6 010 $a1-280-64726-4 010 $a9786613633316 010 $a1-139-37794-9 010 $a1-139-37508-3 010 $a0-511-98016-7 010 $a1-139-37651-9 010 $a1-139-37109-6 010 $a1-139-37937-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000103252 035 $a(EBL)880693 035 $a(OCoLC)794327705 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000658639 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11430293 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000658639 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10691091 035 $a(PQKB)11592962 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511980169 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC880693 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL880693 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10565067 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL363331 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000103252 100 $a20120511d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe shaping of German identity $eauthority and crisis, 1245-1414 /$fLen Scales 210 $aCambridge ;$aNew York $cCambridge University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 619 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-46034-4 311 $a0-521-57333-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: German questions -- Modern history: inventing the medieval German nation -- Ruled out: monarchy, government and 'state' in Germany -- Realm of imagination: communicating power after the Hohenstaufen -- Shades of a kingdom: in search of a German political community -- The matter of Rome: universalising political identities -- Roman empire, German nation: the German imperial tradition -- Trojans, Giants and other Germans: peoplehoods forgotten, remembered and relocated -- Rome's Barbarians: accounting for the Germans -- East: applying identities -- Being German (I): place and name -- Being German (II): language and locality -- Conclusion: Endings and beginnings. 330 $aGerman identity began to take shape in the late Middle Ages during a period of political weakness and fragmentation for the Holy Roman Empire, the monarchy under which most Germans lived. Between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, the idea that there existed a single German people, with its own lands, language and character, became increasingly widespread, as was expressed in written works of the period. This book - the first on its subject in any language - poses a challenge to some dominant assumptions of current historical scholarship: that early European nation-making inevitably took place within the developing structures of the institutional state; and that, in the absence of such structural growth, the idea of a German nation was uniquely, radically and fatally retarded. In recounting the formation of German identity in the late Middle Ages, this book offers an important new perspective both on German history and on European nation-making. 606 $aNational characteristics, German$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aNationalism$zGermany$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aPolitical culture$zGermany$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aMonarchy$zGermany$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aCrises$zGermany$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aGermany$xPolitics and government$y1273-1517 607 $aGermany$xHistory$y1273-1517 607 $aGermany$xRelations$zHoly Roman Empire 607 $aHoly Roman Empire$xRelations$zGermany 615 0$aNational characteristics, German$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical culture$xHistory 615 0$aMonarchy$xHistory 615 0$aCrises$xHistory 676 $a943/.02 686 $aHIS010000$2bisacsh 700 $aScales$b Len$f1961-$01598227 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815404803321 996 $aThe shaping of German identity$93920323 997 $aUNINA